Instructional Guidelines 2024-25
Teachers and students collaborate to determine learning goals that they both monitor and assess against learning criteria and expectations, adjusting when necessary.
What is goal setting?
Teaching in a way that is direct and structured
What is Explicit Instruction?
When teachers use explicit instruction, they make lessons crystal clear. Supports for students in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks that scaffolded learning can be found in IEPs and 504 Plans (Accommodations, Supplementary Aids, Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP), Assistive Technology, and IEP Goals.
Describes the attributes and skills PGCPS wants for all students to thrive in a dynamic, complex and global community.
What is the Student Learner Profile?
It encompasses collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data from formative, interim, and summative assessments to gain insight into how well students understand and master content.
What is Data-Driven Instruction?
PGCPS will be a GREAT school system recognized for providing education services, which ensure that every student in our diverse school district graduates ready for college and careers in a global society.
What is the PGCPS and Suitland Es. Vision
Our WHY
Who are our students?
Adapting the content, methodology or delivery of instruction to meet the unique needs of child with a disability
What is special education which includes specially designed instruction; SDI should have the goal of enabling a child with a disability to learn in the curriculum available to all students.
ELD teachers provide lessons instruction that speaking, listening, and writing
What is small group? MLs should receive daily oral language feedback from ELD and classroom teacher.
Examining results to determine areas of strength and
weakness (Data Reports and Data Inquiry).
What is analysis?
The teachers and staff are committed:
Providing rigorous instruction that incorporates an integration of content
Demonstrating performance-based learning with real-world applications
Ensuring that the total school environment integrates Panther PRIDE to ensure the academic, social, and emotional needs of every learner are met
Teaching critical higher-order thinking skills
We believe these pillars will prepare our students to successfully matriculate through Prince George’s County Public Schools to become college and career ready.
What is the Suitland Mission Statement
Opportunities for students to grapple with a task and create meaning replaced this term
Gradual Release of Responsibility; students should have daily instruction that challenges them to ask questions, extend their thinking and justify their reasoning. "Just in Time" supports and scaffolds provide learners access to grade level content.
Responsible for the developing, implementing, evaluating and monitoring SDI
Who are the general education teacher, special education teacher and related and support service providers. Para Educators and ISEAs support implementing, evaluating and monitoring SDI
The New Comer Academy should be utilized for grades 1-5 when learners are at this level
What is Proficiency Level 1.0. Students should be puled out to receive 50 minutes of small group instruction
Creating an environment that supports and values
data-driven instruction (Leadership Team, Math Plan, Implementation Calendar, and Professional Development).
What is Culture?
Demonstrate YOUR Panther PRIDE
What is Peace, Respect, Involved in Learning, Dare to be different, and Environmentally aware
Progress monitoring tools for reading instruction
What are iReady, Really Great Reading's Readuing Playground and Lexia Core5
Places SDIs can be found
Accommodations , Supplementary Aids, Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP), Assistive Technology, IEP Goals and Services
The length of time the 2nd-5th grade ELD Writing Toolkit should be implemented with fidelity
What is from August - January
Emphasizes student discourse and group work in its lessons and math tasks. The three Signature Strategies are designed to support teachers and students as they participate in powerful and collaborative mathematics classrooms”
PGCPS Mathematics Core Curriculum
Death in the immediate family
Illness of the pupil
Quarantine
Physical Incapacity
Mental Incapacity
Violent Storms
School approved work, activity or action
Observance of a religious holiday
State emergency
What are Lawful Absences
The guidance and understanding used to support teachers with effectively implement the early learning curriculum
What is the Connect 4 Learning Fidelity Checklist
Defines our expectations for instruction and provides a framework for consistently planning and implementing evidence-based practices in all grade levels, classroom and content areas.
What is the Instructional Framework?
The strategies to scaffold content lesson plans in order to make content input comprehensible for MLs.
What are the Key ELD strategies? (Sentence Starters; Visual Supports;Learning by Doing; Collaborative Conversations; Modified Graphic Organizers; and Direct Vocabulary Instruction.
Provides teaching strategies, structures, and tools to support inquiry-based, student-centered learning and instruction.
What is The PGCPS Math Teaching Toolkit (MTT)
BOY, MY and EOY; along with monitoring 1 goal attainment
What is Staff Evaluations